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Lighting Device.

Pate n'ted Jan. '25, 1870.

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WILLIAM H. WEEKS,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 99,123, dated January 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN AUTOMATIC HGH'I'ING-ATTACHMENT FOR LAMPS AND PAPER-BURNERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WEEKS, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in AutomaticLighting- Attachment for Lamp and Taper-Burners; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a detail vertical section of myimproved burner.

Figure 2 is an under side view of-the same.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improvedlighting-attachment for taper and lamp-burners, by means of which thewick or taper may be instantly and conveniently lighted, and which shallat the same time be so constructed as'to raise the taper or wick by thesame operation; and

It consists in the construction of various parts of the attachment withthe burner, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the body of the burner, and

B is the taper or wick-tube, about the construction of which parts thereis nothing new.

0 are the spur-wheels, by means of which the wick or taper is raisedthrough the tube B, and which are attached to the shaft D, which passesthrough and is pivoted to the walls of the burner A, and to one of theends of which is attached a button, E, for convenience in operating it.

F is a lever, pivoted to the body A of the burner, and the upper part ofwhich is curved, so that its forward or upper end, which is roughened,may pass through a slot in the tube B, and strike against the wick ortaper within said tube.

The lever F is provided with a thumb-piece, f, for convenience inoperating it. 1

The lower part or arm of the lever F passes down through a slot in thebody'A of the burner, and to its lower end is pivoted one end of theconnecting-bar G, the other end of which is pivoted to a pawl-wheel, H,working upon the shaft D, and the teeth of which take hold of the teethof the ratchet-wheel I, rigidly'attached to the said shaft '1).

The pawl-wheel H is held up against the ratchetwheel I, with sufiicientforce to cause its teeth to take hold of the teeth of the saidratchet-wheel when moved forward, and allow its teeth to slide over theteeth of the said ratchet-wheel when moved backward, by a spring, J,coiled around the shaft D, and resting against the said pawl-wheel H, asshown in fig. 2.

The lever F f, after being drawn back, is thrown forward to give theblow, by a spring, K, connected witlrthe body A of the burner, andacting against the lower end of the lever F f.

By this construction, every time the lever F f is drawn back to give theblow, the wick or taper will be raised a little.

The said wick or taper may also be raised in the ordinary manner, byoperating the button E. g

The fulminate to be ignited or exploded by the percussion of the lever Ff, may be placed upon the wick, and so prepared as to be unaffected. bythe wax of the taper, or the oil of the lamp. Or the lever F may be madehollow, and a sufficient quantity of said fulminate fed forward at eachmovement of said lever.

Having ,thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Thecombination of a lever, F f, and spring K, with the body and tube of ataper or lamp-burner, substantially as herein shown and described andfor the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the lever Ff, spring K, connecting-bar G,pawl-wheel H, ratchet-wheel I, and spring J, with the spur-wheel,shaft-body, and tube of a taper or lamp burner, substantially as hereinshown and described and for the'purposes set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 28th day ofDecember, 1869.

WM. -H. WEEKS.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. W. Manna, JAMES '1. GRAHAM.

